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Howard E
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Exclude moves feature

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Rebel used to have the exclude move feature when analysing.
Any programs, or Gui's have such a feature? Thanks.
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Eelco de Groot
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Re: Exclude moves feature

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Howard E wrote:Rebel used to have the exclude move feature when analysing.
Any programs, or Gui's have such a feature? Thanks.
Yes, sure, I am not sure about Winboard engines specifically but for UCI, if an engine follows the full UCI protocol you can let it exclude moves from analysis. This is a basic ingrediënt for the IDeA set-up in Aquarium, at least that's what I'm told 8-) You would have to look up exactly how to do it in the GUI that you want to use.

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Re: Exclude moves feature

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Eelco de Groot wrote:
Howard E wrote:Rebel used to have the exclude move feature when analysing.
Any programs, or Gui's have such a feature? Thanks.
Yes, sure, I am not sure about Winboard engines specifically but for UCI, if an engine follows the full UCI protocol you can let it exclude moves from analysis. This is a basic ingrediënt for the IDeA set-up in Aquarium, at least that's what I'm told 8-) You would have to look up exactly how to do it in the GUI that you want to use.

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Eelco
This is not very precise I suppose, because the way it is implemented in the UCI standard is with "go searchmoves" after which the GUI sends all the moves to be searched. But there was a thread recently that many UCI engines do not bother with having the feature implemented yet, in which case the GUI is helpless. See also this thread by Dadi Jonsson:

http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopi ... 46&t=29744

As far as I can see it works in the Shredder GUI with Stockfish and Rainbow Serpent, when in Analysis mode you can press 'Ctrl' when entering a move and the program will start only analyzing this move. Use 'Shift' for excluding a move.

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Eelco
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bnst
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Re: Exclude moves feature

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I bought the Shredder GUI pretty much because of this feature. It works nicely with any UCI engine.

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Howard E
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Re: Exclude moves feature

Post by Howard E »

Thankyou both for the feedback.
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Kaj Soderberg

Re: Exclude moves feature

Post by Kaj Soderberg »

Chesspartner has it as well, but only Chess Tiger makes use of it under CP.
I suggested it to Ed on this forum, and it was then made clear that only small engine adjustments were necessary to make use of it.

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Kaj
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